Jon Oringer founded Shutterstock in 2003 with thousands of his own digital photographs. A serial entrepreneur, he recognized the need for licensable images at an affordable cost and created the first global subscription image marketplace. Jon built the original site from the ground up, and still enjoys writing code. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia and a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Stony Brook. A New Yorker to the core, Jon resides in the West Village, is a certified commercial helicopter pilot, and enjoys shooting film with his Mamiya 7II camera.
Analytics + Data
Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer on Data, Disruption, and Network Effects
At its core, our stock photography agency, Shutterstock, is a technology company. Forty percent of our nearly 300 employees are technologists—programmers, product specialists, and data scientists. People all over the world depend on us every day for images, videos, and instruction, or as a source of income for licensing their own creative work. But we’re essentially in the business of building two-sided marketplaces that are driven by network effects. Our business leverages data and network-effect mechanics to disrupt and grow.
